It’s a challenging time of year for the healthcare system. Flu cases in hospital have already hit last year’s peak, norovirus cases are rife and the NHS has warned about a “quad-demic” of illnesses over the festive season.
Despite the pressures, it appears that the vast majority of us are already happy with how our local practice operates, according to the latest GP Patient Survey, produced by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England.
Almost 700,000 patients in England completed the 2024 survey, which gathers information on how patients feel about their local GP, revealing the best and worst surgeries in England.
Across the country, the majority of patients described the overall experience as ‘very good’ (37.1%) or ‘fairly good’ (30.2%). Not everyone is as happy with their local practice though — 9.4% said their overall experience was ‘fairly poor’ and 9.5% described it as ‘very poor’. The survey was carried out between January 2 and March 25.
Here we reveal the GP practices in England which were voted the best by you. Surgeries are ranked by the proportion of patients that said they were ‘very good’.

19. Freshwell Health Centre - Finchingfield, Braintree
There were 239 survey forms sent out to patients at Freshwell Health Centre in Finchingfield, Braintree. The response rate was 50%, with 119 patients rating their overall experience. Of these, 90% said it was very good and 9% said it was fairly good. | Google Maps

20. Reeth Medical Centre - Reeth, Richmond
There were 391 survey forms sent out to patients at Reeth Medical Centre in Reeth, Richmond. The response rate was 62%, with 239 patients rating their overall experience. Of these, 90% said it was very good and 5% said it was fairly good. | Google Maps

21. Mere Surgery - Mere, Warminster
There were 228 survey forms sent out to patients at Mere Surgery in Mere, Warminster. The response rate was 57%, with 127 patients rating their overall experience. Of these, 90% said it was very good and 9% said it was fairly good. | Google Maps